This is an analysis of the poem The Logger that begins with:

In the moonless, misty night, with my little pipe alight,
I am sitting by the camp-fire's fading cheer;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXcXdX efdfgccc dhhhhhhh hgcgXiji hhbheaaa cbjbheXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 00101010110101 111010110101 10101011011101 10100011101 0101011011101 1101010101 00101011110111 10101010001 11101011110101 0101010111 111010010010001 00101010101 111010111101001 10101110011 11111010010101 00111010101 1111010110101 1100010101 1010101100101 1111011101 00101011010101 0101010101 011001010101 1110010101 1101111010001 1101110101 1111011110101 11101111111 1111111111111 11101011101 10111011011101 0101011101 00101011010101 0111110011 10101011110101 1101011101 1101110111111 1111110101 111010111000001 1101010101 10101011111001 1101010101 10101011010101 10110011101 11111011010101 10101001101 10111011110101 11101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 427
  • Average number of words per stanza: 81
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, i, to, its, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Logger;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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